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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
(www.theregister.com)
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In my experience neither of those are true, on linux unless a dependency was dropped a 4 year old program will still probably work fine and a 20 year old program on windows will likely have some glitches which may or may not be problematic.